Hi all. This is my tool set. What am I missing from the kit? Mine is a 2000 JDM model.
Where can I source the missing bits?

Thank you.

 

that's all of it. Those other slots are unused.

 

Yeah they came like that. If you wanted to fill the slots, earlier cars came with a spark plug socket and handle that uses those locations. They also got a top tray with pliers, two spanners and a screwdriver.

 

That would be nice. Now it looks unfinished. Any pics of those tools?

 

Sure, there are some in this thread

 

This is supposed to be the FC tool kit (¡not 100% sure, as there are some German made tools)

 

This is the Top Tray.... and the tools in it... which I also suppose are the right ones (found some time ago these pictures)

 

These pictures might also help

 

Later today I'll post some pictures of how I completed my sets of tools (as I now have 2 RX-7s, 1993 and 1994 )

 

Surprised to learn that later models only had the reduced tool kit. I wondered why I did not see more of the upper tray,

Weight reduction, I wonder?

I vaguely remember there might have been some overlap with the Miata tool set.

 

Cost reduction, more likely.

That said, having seen this thread I would like to compile a upper tray kit for my 1995...just because.

 

Here are the two tray, plus the top tray. I have fabricated myself the Spark Plug Sockets and the Handles..... Still missing the Spanners, which I want to find the right ones or ones that match as best as possible the originals.

 

It seems you generally need a thin walled socket to remove the spark plugs? Would the tool kit socket actually work?

 

The ones I made, yes they work. I've tried them.

 

You only need a thin wall socket for exotic spark plugs that sit deep into the rotor housing. The standard NGK plugs (BUR7EQP/9EQP) can use any standard spark plug socket.

That stamped steel socket with a rod is common in Japanese motorcycle tool kits.

I have a JDM tool kit on my car, bought it ages ago. The tools are SUPER crappy that it comes with, thin with the cheapest finish possible.

The tool kit is cool but the usefulness is pretty small.

I think it would be awesome to have a nice actually useful tool kit that fits back there.

A while back I cut out the bottom tool tray and removed the stock lug nut tool and put an extendible Gorilla breaker bar tool with 21mm socket. Fits in there nicely with some trimming of the tray and is WAY more useful than the crappy stock tool.

Dale

 

While we're on the subject of FD tool sets, when I got my FD from its PO, I discovered the pictured tool set in the hatch area. It's not like the JDM foam trays pictured in the previous posts, but a zippered pouch shaped to fit in that same area, which is where I found it. Since my FD is a USDM car, maybe this was a dealer option? Anyone know?

Judging from the # of open slots/spaces in the pouch, most of the tools it may have had at one point are long since missing, but what you see here is what I got - a metric open end wrench, a Phillips screwdriver, and some small jeweler's screwdrivers (WTF would anyone need those to fix a broken FD?)



Closed pouch

Open pouch with tools it contained. Looks like there are slots for 2 more wrenches adjacent to the 1 wrench it had, and perhaps a small prybar/lugnut wrench on the other side? The jeweler's screwdrivers were in the slots along the pouch's center spine.

 

I've NEVER seen that before. Someone may have found some tool kit that is generally the right shape and size and put it back there. The tiny screwdrivers make me think it was for a different purpose, there's very little need for jeweler's screwdrivers on an FD especially if you are on the side of the road.

Dale

 

Show it to Sakebomb. New Product. Likely get 1000 sales!

 

^My thoughts exactly. I figure the PO just stuck them in there for some reason; I suppose those two skinny slots there could have held pens instead.

Yup, cheap case & some cheap tools + "custom FD parts development tax" = PROFIT!